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Yet Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2634 | TRs | Pics Location: Happily Ever After |
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:03 pm
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TNAB's Rampart Ridge Non-TR
BarbE
Damon
EastKing
Magellan
Malachai Constant
moosefish
rdyhiker
Schmidt Attitude
the lykkens
Yet & Mark
yukon222
Woof!
Altidogs (Keifer and Rowena)
Greek Dogs (Zeus and Athena)
Dogs Dog (Rufus)
It was wet. It was fun. It was TNAB. The End.
ps: Post your pics, peeps, because I didn't take any!
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Go Jo of the lykkens
Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 2248 | TRs | Pics Location: Around The Bend |
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:09 pm
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Wow, short and sweet (yet & the TR)
Athena tracks the front runners to the lake. boy, my shorts were really clean on the way up our tarn turn around at 7:30... no ramparts for us. waterfall deja vous at 7:40
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Yet Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2634 | TRs | Pics Location: Happily Ever After |
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:13 pm
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the lykkens wrote: | boy, my shorts were really clean on the way up |
On the way home, I had to sit in the back with Rufus on the "doggie blanket."
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Ingunn Hiking Viking
Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 1751 | TRs | Pics Location: Redmond |
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:18 pm
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Yet wrote: | On the way home, I had to sit in the back with Rufus on the "doggie blanket." |
We went up today, and due to my five muddy slips and falls on the way down I had to sit on the doggie blanket too!
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Yet Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2634 | TRs | Pics Location: Happily Ever After |
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:43 pm
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Ingunn, I think you and I will get along just fine.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Nice to see everyone, the rock sure was slick , no pix due to fog, which also led me on a tour of most of the peaks of Rampart Ridge
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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yukon222 Member
Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 1893 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:49 am
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Extremely wet, windy, foggy, cold, muddy, etc. Hard to believe it was August up there.
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Schmidt Alti-Babe The Ice Queen
Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 606 | TRs | Pics Location: Buried by backlogged pictures |
Yeah, Yukon. It sure felt more like September.
We sure didn't feel like hiking when we saw the drizzle, but it ended up being a fun hike anyways!
A soggy start Babe, watch out for velociraptors! Damon enjoys the stunning Lillian view Sure looks like the last time we were here.... Forging ahead Yukon and Alti-Babe still find time to pose! Rampart summit ahead S Team Rampart summit shot Rampart summit cairn Slippery slabs Ha! It rains harder in North Bend! In the Pour House
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
You guys are troopers. Nice work.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Magellan Brutally Handsome
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 13116 | TRs | Pics Location: Inexorable descent |
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:21 am
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No pictures here. For the uninitiated this is a route, not a trail, and a slightly brushy one at that. I got soaked, dried out, and resoaked a few times. By the time we hit Lillian, I was very wet, and the rain was coming down. My fun meter was declining, so we chose to head out.
I think the main reason I left early was I did not want to come down this steep, muddy path in the dark. Even in daylight we took a couple of side trails before finding our way back to the main path. It took a lot of guts to finish this under less than optimal conditions.
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moosefish I am the fish
Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 1210 | TRs | Pics Location: monkey herder |
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:01 am
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We're still dry Even the whippets needed help getting down
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tigermn Member
Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 9242 | TRs | Pics Location: There... |
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:17 am
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Magellan wrote: | No pictures here. For the uninitiated this is a route, not a trail, and a slightly brushy one at that. I got soaked, dried out, and resoaked a few times. By the time we hit Lillian, I was very wet, and the rain was coming down. My fun meter was declining, so we chose to head out.
I think the main reason I left early was I did not want to come down this steep, muddy path in the dark. Even in daylight we took a couple of side trails before finding our way back to the main path. It took a lot of guts to finish this under less than optimal conditions. |
Yea I guess everyone has a different "fun meter" scale..
Sounds like there were enough harmless slips in the mud/crap to go around. That scramble rock looked a little wet.
I've kinda wanted to explore this route to the lake but not in the rain/dark
How was that Rocky run road or whatever it's called? I've heard it's maybe not a place to take your new Lexus.
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yukon222 Member
Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 1893 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:34 am
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Magellan, the footing going up was bad and the drifting fog obscuring the ridges made route finding a little interesting! It took us 1hr 14min to do the 2600' gain but just over 2hrs to get everyone back down. The group stayed together on the descent and let's just say there was more than 1 slip coming down the "trail".
BikeJr, I wouldn't take a Lexus on that road. Narrows down in several places with brush and you'd probably end up with more than a few scratches. Ground clearance wise, no problem.
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Mark Griffith (Embrace yourself)
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 853 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
bikejr wrote: | I've kinda wanted to explore this route to the lake but not in the rain/dark
How was that Rocky run road or whatever it's called? I've heard it's maybe not a place to take your new Lexus. |
The route is not bad in the dark if its not raining...
The road is fine, but not for a car with low clearance that is new and you don't want to get scratched.
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tigermn Member
Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 9242 | TRs | Pics Location: There... |
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:18 am
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mbgriffi wrote: | bikejr wrote: | I've kinda wanted to explore this route to the lake but not in the rain/dark
How was that Rocky run road or whatever it's called? I've heard it's maybe not a place to take your new Lexus. |
The route is not bad in the dark if its not raining...
The road is fine, but not for a car with low clearance that is new and you don't want to get scratched. |
I think I need to buy an old jeep or something. While my car isn't new it is black. I assume the scratches might result because it's brushy/overgrown?
It looks like tracing it out it is maybe about a 2 mile walk if you don't wanna drive it. Still probably shorter than the Margaret trail route.
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